Tag: Annaleigh Ashford
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Colorado’s punk-rock edge turns to Jello (Biafra)
The Colorado 150, Part 4 of 6: Meet everyone from Barry Fey to Amy Adams to Gus Van Sant to John Fielder as our countdown moves into the top 75 Pathmakers leading up to Colorado’s 150th birthday You might not expect the fierce face of hardcore American punk to have come from the placid hallways…
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Justine Lupe comes home: Everybody wants this
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 19 A remarkably large class of Coloradans excelled in 2025 on screens large and small, and on stages near and far Justine Lupe started to get famous around 2018 because she was versatile, she was deeply relatable, she was quirky, and she was completely authentic – on camera and…
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Actor Penny Dwyer taught her daughter to laugh at sadness
When my friend Penny Dwyer started losing her hair to chemotherapy, she did not despair. She let her 17-year-old daughter cut off what was left of it and turn it into a silly Tik-Tok video. “I gave her the worst haircut of her life,” Becca Dwyer said of a trendy look that left the back…
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Littleton TV star Melissa Benoist is in the driver’s seat of her life | John Moore
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‘The Girls on the Bus’ is not just about women supporting women. It’s about empathy and common ground.
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The Annaleigh Ashford express keeps rolling along | Arts news
Annaleigh Ashford, Hollywood’s leading Colorado-connected actor of the moment, just had three new projects announced this past week alone – one on TV, one on film and one on stage. And that doesn’t even count her Emmy Award nomination earlier this month. Ashford, a graduate of Wheat Ridge High School, will next star in the true…
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A father, a son, and a moment more powerful than any story | John Moore
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2023 TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 10
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Colorado’s can’t-miss kid is making her Denver Center debut | John Moore
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‘Wherever Sophia (Dotson) wants to go, Sophia is going to get there’
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X is coming to mark its spot at the Oriental Theater | Arts news
It’s hard when you’re listening to a favorite podcast and your favorite band comes up in the conversation — and it’s apparent that no one really knows much of anything about it. Such was the case when the subject of John Doe and his band X came up on a recent episode of “Armchair Expert” with…
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Westword puts long-running music festival on hold for 2023 | Arts news
I remember happening upon a band called Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at the very first Westword Music Showcase in 1995 and thinking I had found my new church. One I have regularly attended since. (Both the band … and the festival.) Looking back on the lineup for that first-ever local music celebration in LoDo now…